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Chainsaw man spoilers

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1.2's horror: a funny, even if a bit kitschy, twist on classic horror tropes and movies. All's well that end well

2.1's horror:

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they introduce us to the OSHA head of laplace and its the most stressed out motherfucker known to existence. mesmer jr takes their blood pressure once for a medical checkup and the dial of the bp cuff explodes and tears a perfectly sized hole in the ceiling with how inhumanely high their blood pressure is

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My dad served on the U.S.S Independence and had no idea how to respond to her design when I showed him

I love that story about showing anime shipgirls to the actual crew of the USS Iowa. That feels like a universal sailor trait. Imagine going back in time to show a bunch of Roman sailors an anime girl version of their trireme. They would go nuts for it.

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The limited reach and poor preservation of pre-Internet fandom expression means we'll probably never know how many people desperately wanted to get triple-teamed by the Three Stooges in their prime, but I'm betting that number was non-zero.

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Been in Providence for 4 years and still have not found H.P. Lovecraft’s ghost so that I can show him the modern development of tentacle hentai to traumatize him,,, disappointing

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RAHHHHH WINDSONG ILYYYY

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YOU AINT SLICK VILLAGE GIRL

(but damn shooting your shot at the new judge you go girl).

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Important lessons from mobile game ads:

- there’s going to be so many little guys

- there’s going to be like one really big fucking guy watch out

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Kakania's character story got me banging my head against a wall

When we first meet her in the story, she's this bright-eyed silly idealist, only later to be crushed by what these ideals could entail in the wrong hands. Wrong hands that she willingly helped and nurtured, though completely unaware of the danger until it was too late. She's such a tragic character who fundamentally wants to be and was at one point, a whimsical and happy one, but there are so many things that get in her way. Her family, outsiders, the storm, and even herself. I enjoy how complex she is and hope( but somehow doubt) that she continues playing a part in the story as it continues.

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So let's talk about the lyrics Isolde and Kakania were singing at the end of "Through the Glass"!

As the story described, Isolde was singing a part of the opera "Tristan und Isolde," specifically the part where Isolde is waiting for her rendezvous with Tristan.

In this part, Isolde ignores the calling of horns that signals the arrival of King Marke—the king she's supposed to marry—, insisting that it's just the rustling of the wind or the trickling of the stream, even though her maid tells her over and over that it IS the sound of the horns and the king is nearby.

In our Isolde case, I think we can interpret the call of horns as symbolizing the reality that Isolde doesn't hear—or rather, doesn't want to hear. Because "the calling of horns does not sound so sweet" compared to "the silence of the night" (the peaceful dream she doesn't want to wake up from), and the promise of meeting with "He who is waiting for me in the silence of the night," which—I think we can agree—is Kakania in her dream.

And unlike the "run away with me, Cavaradossi" scene, this time Kakania responded with her part!

Or at least... in the loose sense of it, because the part Kakania chose to sing skipped a lot of events ahead from Isolde's part, which is very interesting! Isolde's lines are from Act 2, while Kakania's are from Act 3: after the king catches Tristan and Isolde in the middle of their rendezveous, Tristan gets stabbed by his betraying friend, and he wakes up with a severe injury that will kill him very soon.

I think this might be intentional—to symbolize that Isolde is stuck in the past, in the happiest moments of her life, while Kakania is facing the reality of the present, in the aftermath of everything that has happened to them.

Unlike Isolde, who sang her part faithfully to the opera, Kakania took the full creative liberty of only singing a few lines from Tristan's part and straight up skipping the rest of it. Which is a bit disappointing at first (the time she actually played along with the opera act and she didn't even do it properly, smh), but this means that every single line she sang was deliberately chosen to convey what she wanted to say to Isolde!

I interpreted the first part of the lines as her expressing how lost she felt after the Storm washed away their era. She fully expected to get reversed by the Storm to atone for her sins, and now that she's left as the only survivor, she has no place nor people to return to. Her life, her purpose, the dream she worked on all her life, and the people she strived that dream for... all gone. She no longer knows where she's standing in the world and what lies ahead for her.

We can also interpret this as Kakania responding to Isolde, who was singing and waiting for Kakania as her "Tristan," saying that she can't meet her in fear of triggering Isolde's trauma and making her condition worse.

And the second part... is Kakania's resolve, that even if everything has changed, even if she's stranded with no era to return to, she will still stay on her path of striving to the betterment of the world, of trying to fix "the cracked mirror" no matter how fragile and broken it is. Back then, by fighting for the rights of arcanists and the other "outsiders" in Vienna, and now by doing all she can to help with the Storm.

...and this also means goodbye. Because Isolde chose to stay in the past, and Kakania, who took a different path, respected Isolde's wish and headed on alone into the future.

But goodbyes don't always last forever. And as Kakania said at the end of her story:

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Knight Lex Luporum of ferris, a mounth of work turned out so so well what a wonderful project

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Now that we can talk about Deadlock, shoutout to the funniest bug in the game: image sources working in chat.

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this mf has been convinced by the billionairess to kill Alfred Ill

funniest thing so far about owning a bright yellow car has been someone politely being like “oh, you… WANTED this color?” like. yes i willingly picked this. Genuinely. do you hate happiness

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a lot of the community thought she was going to be the suave shady foreigner that touches down on rayashki under zeno orders, but no, she's just kind of a giant nerd who spiritually embodies a soggy paper bag that becomes immediately rayashki-pilled under their love and support. missus ekaterina windsong i want you (to have more funding)

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She might be a self-depreciating girl failure, but she's THE self-depreciating girl failure that stepped up. The broke asf researcher who is willing to put herself on the line—bad ass, majestic, broke and anxious!

(special shout out to Avgust, you sweet sweet summer child 🥺)

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Wonka is a thrilling and heartwarming tale about 5 mentally ill and neurodivergent adults and an abused child destroying the lives and careers of 3 billionaires in order to achieve one man's dream to resurrect the dead and legalise maladaptive daydreaming.